Patents by Inventor Vasisvaran Gopal

Vasisvaran Gopal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230309446
    Abstract: Techniques and/or systems are disclosed herein for controlling a harvesting rate in a harvester vehicle having a crop feed rate control system that provides crop processing data to a vehicle control system. The crop feed rate control system includes: one or more feedback systems that operably provide a feedback signal including data indicative of a detected load amount for crop processing components of the crop processing system and indicative of a target load amount for the crop processing components; a first control module that operably receives the feedback signal and generates a controlling load signal based at least upon the feedback signal, the controlling load signal indicative of a controlling component of the crop processing components; and a second control module that operably receives a targeted load signal and the controlling load signal, the second control module operably generating crop processing data indicative of a target harvesting rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: Deere & Company, Iowa State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Wigdahl, Jeffrey C. Askey, Mark A. Cracraft, Vasisvaran Gopal